> On 10/27/21 Ehud wrote:

> On 10/27/21 11:03 AM, Daniel wrote:

> Since both of you replied but didn't directly commented on my suggestion 
> (basically, use increased depth/indentation for stuff that should go on a 
> frame which makes the whole separator machinery unnecessary between frames), 
> I am wondering whether you had any thoughts about it or whether the 
> suggestion isn't clear enough.

> Daniel
  > Daniel,
  > I can only speak for myself.  Since I am not a developer, and know nothing 
about what is behind the screen of Lyx/Beamer, I assume that there is a 
(valid?) reason behind the need for an End-Of-Frame, without which, presumably, 
things will go fall apart.  All I know is that it IS difficult, right now, and 
--  I suspect-- does not need to be.


  > Ehud Kaplan

I think Ehud may have a point that I had overlooked. My solution to have new 
frames always begin with a Frame environment assumes that one always wants a 
Frame title on a slide. If I understand Daniel’s suggestion, I think it assumes 
that the user always wants some level of nesting of information on a slide.

I suppose there may be times when one just wants a slide without a Frame title. 
In such a case one needs some end of frame marker other than a Frame title 
environment. I’ve attached an MWE to demonstrate various ways of creating 
slides. Not all of these slides would be possible without a separate 
end-of-frame marker.

I have to keep reminding myself that other users may have needs different from 
mine and that those needs may require different software solutions.

In an earlier email, I had mentioned the way Markdown does it with a new slide 
being generated by a slide title Header hashtag (#) as below:

# Slide Title
- Bullet item
           - Nested Bullet item

# A New Slide

But, some Markdown slide generators (such as Landslide or Darkslide) require a 
separate end-of-frame marker:

# Slide Title
- Bullet item
           - Nested Bullet item
---

# New Frame Title
- And so on…

I had always wondered why Landslide and Darkslide would have a frame separator 
(---). I had always thought that a new frame title should be sufficient (as it 
is with Slidy or Ioslides). But, I can how that is only because my slides 
*always* have titles. For those who don’t want slide Titles (and I’m seeing 
this more and more), some other way of identifying a new slide is required.

I don’t envy software developers. It must be a bear to try to meet all of the 
different needs we end users have.

Virgil



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